Nuclear

Nuclear

Jenine injected me with nuclear medicine today.
In my life I have imagined myself as many things--
archaeologist,
photographer,
writer--
radioactive was never one of them.
I sat twisted awkwardly,
clamped into the nuclear scanner,
tapping my radioactive toes
to The Outfield
and Matchbox Twenty.
I thought about Homer Simpson.
I thought, it's funny,
I don't feel very radioactive.
It's like on your birthday--
you know you're older,
but you feel like the same you.
Today I was the same me,
except maybe I could glow in the dark.

~robyn, 10/20/09